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Bristol Airport reports busiest ever year

12/01/2018 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) has reported 2017 as its busiest ever year with passenger figures topping 8.1m. The South West regional airport saw an increase of over 600,000 passengers compared to 2016 which equates to an 8% increase over the year. Bristol AIrport is England’s third largest regional airport and a base [read more]

Norwegian outlines expansion at Gatwick

04/01/2018 < 1 minute read
Written by: Lisa Parkes

Norwegian has outlined its expansion plans for 2018 at London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) including more US flights and its first South American flight. The low-cost airline will start a four-times-weekly service from Gatwick to Buenos Aires (EZE/SAEZ), Argentina will on 14th February using a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. New destinations in the USA [read more]

boeing not looking for change of control at embraer

Boeing not looking for change in control at Embraer

02/01/2018 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

US airframer Boeing has reportedly said it is not seeking a change of control at Embraer as it seeks to take over the Brazilian company. Boeing has moved quickly to create a tie-up with Embraer in what is seen as a retaliatory move to counter the Airbus/Bombardier deal which saw the [read more]

Norwegian increases Gatwick to Boston frequency

18/12/2017 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Norwegian has said it plans to increase the frequency of its London Gatwick to Boston service from June 2018. The service, which currently operates 4-times per week will increase to daily from 12th June. Norwegian Air International operates the transatlantic service from London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) to Boston Logan (BOS/KBOS) using a [read more]

Ryanair in talks for NIKI assets

15/12/2017 < 1 minute read
Written by: UK Aviation News

Irish budget carrier Ryanair has confirmed it is in contact with administrators for the former Air Belin owned NIKI with a view to purchasing NIKI assets. NIKI entered administration yesterday when Lufthansa pulled out of a deal to buy the subsidiary as regulators were concerned about a monopoly. Ryanair is looking [read more]

Air Berlin’s NIKI to Cease Operations

14/12/2017 3 minute read
Written by: William Hogarth

German carrier Lufthansa shocked the aviation industry yesterday when the announcement came they were to abandon a deal to buy defunct Air Berlins leisure carrier, NIKI leaving the airline insolvent. The news means that the Austrian leisure carrier has now been forced to cancel all flights from December 14th after [read more]

Airbus draws giant Christmas tree over Germany

13/12/2017 < 1 minute read
Written by: Lisa Parkes

Airbus has drawn a giant Christmas tree over Germany on a test flight of a new Airbus A380. The flight from Airbus’ A380 assembly facility in Hamburg took at 12:47 and proceeded to draw out the Christmas tree which could be clearly seen by users of websites such as Flightradar24, Flightaware and Plane [read more]

Cardiff Airport growth slows but still up on 2016

12/12/2017 < 1 minute read
Written by: Lisa Parkes

According to the latest figures released by the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) for October, growth at Cardiff Airport had slowed compared to previous months. The figures show that 134,349 passengers used the Welsh Government owned airport in October 2017, a 4.1% rise over the same period last year but [read more]

Virgin changes to A330-200 at Manchester

12/12/2017 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Virgin Atlantic is changing some A330 routes at Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) to the smaller -200 version in 2018. Starting from March ’18, flights from Manchester to Atlanta (ATL/KATL) and New York (JFK/KJFK) will use the smaller Airbus A330 variant and from May ’18, Barbados (BGI/TBPB), Boston (BOS/KBOS) and San Francisco (SFO/KSFO) [read more]

Thomas Cook to add Manchester to Marrakech in Winter 2018

08/12/2017 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Thomas Cook Airlines (UK) (MT/TCX) is planning to launch a service from Manchester to Marrakech starting in winter 2018. The UK holiday airline will operate the service twice-weekly using one of the airlines A321 aircraft. Marrakech is the 4th largest city in Morocco and is home one of the best Medinas [read more]